History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1

From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

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Published
February 2014

"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."—Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review

Preface 1. In the Beginning . . . : Magico-Religious Behavior of the Paleanthropians 2. The Longest Revolution: The Discovery of Agriculture—Mesolithic and Neolithic 3. The Mesopotamian Religions4. Religious Ideas and Political Crises in Ancient Egypt 5. Megaliths, Temples, Ceremonial Centers: Occident, Mediterranean, Indus Valley 6. The Religions of the Hittites and the Canaanites 7. "When Israel Was a Child" 8. The Religion of the Indo-Europeans. The Vedic Gods 9. India before Gautama Buddha: From the Cosmic Sacrifice to the Supreme Identity Atman-Brahman 10. Zeus and the Greek Religion 11. The Olympians and the Heroes 12. The Eleusinian Mysteries 13. Zarathustra and the Iranian Religion 14. The Religion of Israel in the Period of the Kings and the Prophets 15. Dionysus, or Bliss Recovered List of Abbreviations Present Position of Studies: Problems and Progress, Critical Bibliographies Index